The Best English Books
1. Aumonier. Golden Windmill. Macmillan.
2. Cholmondeley. The Romance of His Life. Dodd, Mead.
3. Coppard. Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. Knopf.
4. Hudson. Dead Man's Plack. Dutton.
5. Mansfield. Bliss. Knopf.
6. Merrick. A Chair on the Boulevard. Dutton.
7. Nevinson. Original Sinners. Huebsch.
8. Stephens. Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan.
9. Walpole. The Thirteen Travellers. Doran.
The Best Translations
1. Byng, editor. Roumanian Stories. Lane.
2. Chekhov. The Horse-Stealers. Macmillan.
3. Chekhov. The Schoolmaster. Macmillan.
4. Chekhov. The Schoolmistress. Macmillan.
5. France. Seven Wives of Bluebeard. Lane.
6. Hamp. People. Harcourt and Brace.
7. Jacobsen. Mögens. Brown.
8. Jammes. Romance of the Rabbit. Brown.
9. Popovic, editor. Jugo-Slav Stories. Duffield.
10. Schnitzler. The Shepherd's Pipe. Brown.
11. Turgenev. Knock, Knock, Knock. Macmillan.
12. Turgenev. The Two Friends. Macmillan.
The Best New English Publications
1. Beresford. Signs and Wonders. Golden Cockerel Press.
2. Corkery. Hounds of Banba. Talbot Press.
3. Fisher. Romantic Man. Secker.
4. Lyons. Market Bundle. Butterworth.
5. McCallin. Ulster Fireside Tales. Heath Cranton.
6. Macklin, translator. 29 Short Stories. Philpot.
7. Moorman. Tales of the Ridings. Mathews.
8. Moorman. More Tales of the Ridings. Mathews.
9. Stein. Three Lives. Lane.
10. Woolf. Monday or Tuesday. Hogarth Press.
BELOW FOLLOWS A RECORD OF THIRTY DISTINCTIVE VOLUMES PUBLISHED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1, 1920 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 1921.
I. American Authors
Ghitza and Other Romances of Gypsy Blood, by Konrad Bercovici (Boni & Liveright). This is the best volume of short stories published by an American author this year. It consists of nine epic fragments which are studies in passionate color of Roumanian gypsy life. Mr. Bercovici's work bears no trace of special literary influences, and he has moulded a new form for these stories which disobeys successfully all the codes of story writing. Whether we are to regard him as an American or a European artist seems of little importance. The essential point is that he and Sherwood Anderson are the most significant new short story writers who have emerged in America within the past five years.